Fruit Salad Tree

Fruit Salad Tree

Romans 11:24 Talks about the natural growth and the branches grafted contrary to nature.  This type of grafting is often done for decorative plants and in apple orchards,  Where a crab apple branch is grafted into a line of trees so that cross pollination happens.

The graft on this tree is so good you can't tell which branch was grafted on

These trees that are grafted like this can be called Fruit salad trees,  here are some examples of what I mean;

• Apples and pears grafted to the same tree. 
• Stone fruits like;  peaches,  plums,  nectarines,  apricots grafted on the same tree.
• Citrus fruits like; oranges,  lemons,  limes,  grapefruits grafted on the same tree.
• Or any other type of tree branch (of the same family/species like olive branches to olive tree in Romans 11:17-24) can be grafted to the same tree.

Cross pollination-  Many fruit trees can self pollinate,  But when a tree self pollinates it doesn't produce as much fruit as a tree that is cross pollinated.

This analogy is a model for the church:

• God is the root that supplies all thing for the tree to live and produce fruit,  like The Holy Spirit
• Jesus is the trunk of the tree which all the branches are connected to the the roots(God)
• We are the branches we can produce the most fruit when we a in community.   

Hebrews 10:24-25 24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.